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Line 155 Deployment requires the following steps:

1. Build and install mandoc as described above in steps 2 to 5

below "Installation".

2. If you system uses manpath(1), make sure it is configured

2. If your system uses manpath(1), make sure it is configured

correctly, in particular, it returns all directory trees where

manual pages are installed. If your system uses man.conf(5), make

sure it contains a "_whatdb" for each directory tree, and the order

sure it contains a "_whatdb" line for each directory tree, and the

of these lines meets your wishes.

order of these lines meets your wishes.

3. Run the command "sudo makewhatis" to build mandoc.db(5) databases

in all the directory trees configured in step 2.

Line 168 At this point, your new man(1), apropos(1), and whatis

for help and to have these instructions improved.

Whenever installing new manual pages, re-run makewhatis(8) to update

the databases, or man(1) will not find the new pages.

Deployment using your system's native man(1) viewer

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This mode of deployment does not require database support,

Line 207 is pulled in as a dependency and used to install a pre

Line 210 is pulled in as a dependency and used to install a pre

"catpage" instead of directly as manual page source.

For more background on switching operating systems to use mandoc(1)

instead of groff(1) to format manuals, see the two BSDCan presentations

instead of groff(1) to format manuals, see the BSDCan and EuroBSDCon

by Ingo Schwarze:

presentations by Ingo Schwarze: